Our new tablet!

Happy, smiley faces in Room 5.

We now have a tablet to help us with our learning.  This week we tried taking photos of our mouths for our inquiry topic.  It was really fun watching the slideshow of our happy faces. 

Which photo do you think is a good photo? 

What makes it a good photo? 

We will get better at using the tablet by practicing.

Healthy Bodies

Our new inquiry topic is 'Healthy Bodies.' 


We spent Week 6 looking at ways to keep our teeth healthy. On Friday we got our own brand new toothbrush and toothpaste to take home.  

In Week 7, we are going to find out which foods are best for our growing bodies and brains!  We may even get to try some.  What do you think this triangle has to do with healthy eating?

Which foods do you think are good for you? Come ready to share your ideas on Monday.

The incredible story Clyde

This is the cartoon movie that tells the history of Glasgow and of the commonwealth games.  We really enjoyed the way the man spoke with a scottish accent.

The creation of Clyde

This is the you tube clip we watched to inspire us with our mascot design.  

Our mascots for the NZ commonwealth team.

In Art we are learning how to design. We watched a you tube clip of Beth, a 12 year old girl from Scotland, who designed the mascot for the Glasgow games. It was about her year with Clyde, the mascot.  This inspired us to create our own. We decided to design a mascot for the NZ team at the commonwealth games. It took 9 steps to complete our designs. We are proud of them. You can come and see them in the corridor outside room 5! 

Commonwealth Games

Our inquiry this term has been about the commonwealth games.  At the end of the inquiry we celebrated by having a mini commonwealth games in the junior team.  Children competed in teams representing countries from the commonwealth.  We competed in fun games hen had a real medal ceremony at the end. 

Congratulations to our medal winners!  

Alphabet activities.

We practice alphabet activities to help us learn alphabetical order.  
We are learning to put list words into alphabetical order too.  
Our next step is to use a dictionary to help us look up words we don't know in our reading.


Can you put your spelling words into alphabetical order at home?

Gruffalo Art and Writing

We designed our own scary creature after reading the Gruffalo.  We coloured them in with bright pastels. 

 We then wrote stories about them using descriptive adjectives.

Room 5 Dance performance 2014

We have been learning dances in the junior team this term.  Room 5 have really enjoyed learning a lot of different types of dancing.  We chose three dances to perform that we really liked. The children were fantastic!
Thanks to all the families who came to watch the show.  We hope that you enjoy watching the dances again!